· Private foundation
Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of DON & VIRGINIA WOLF CHARITABLE FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $20,100 |
| TRINITY ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE | $7,600 |
| FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION PBS 39 | $7,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF FORT WAYNE | $6,100 |
| WOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME I | $6,000 |
| FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| THE CARRIAGE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| THE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 HEALTH DENTAL CLINIC | $5,000 |
| THE LITERACY ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FORT WAYNE PARKS DEPT | $4,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HCHARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +41%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America7× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +199%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -9%
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2022 · $4k
- CSCANCER SERVICES OF NE INone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
Easterseals crossroads purpose is to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day.
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
Provide services in response to individual need
The mission of alliance for strategic growth, inc. is to empower the eastern indiana workforce to meet existing and future sector-driven employment demands.
The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…
The indiana chapter of the american academy of pediatrics is committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knitted Knockers Support Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds The Allen County Courthouse Preservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds CASS HOUSING INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · United Way of Allen County Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · McMillen Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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